Aditya Sher
Phil HawksworthI've corrected tiny but annoying mistakes in my #Mastodon posts twice today.
An edit button.
What a time to be alive.
Tom@philhawksworth Isn't the lack of real edit on twitter just the most amazing case study on how architectural decisions made at the beginning of a companies life can continue to impact a decade later.
@tom Yeah, I'd say so.
In fairness, there are also potential cultural and political ramifications of providing this ability, mostly as a result of the implied advocacy for content through liking and re-posting.
I'd say that making sure that we don't create issues by a bait and switch is more a human problem rather than a technical one.
@philhawksworth I'd say there's lots of clean solutions for that, e.g. wiping the likes, a short time limit, showing edit history, limiting the amount of character changes etc.
Twitter infra was built around the core assumption of tweets being immutable.
Either way, they should teach it in school ha